An European and NASA spacecraft has sent back the nearest pictures at any point taken of the sun’s surface. They show the surface has a large number of little sun based flares, or what researchers are calling “campfires.”

Researchers discharged the main pictures taken by Solar Orbiter a week ago. The shuttle was propelled from Cape Canaveral, Florida in February.

The orbiter was around 77 million kilometers from the sun – somewhere between Earth and the sun – when it took the photos.

Sun powered Orbiter’s photos are the main pictures from so near the sun’s surface. They show hued twirls – splendid yellow and dark gray.

Daniel Müller is an European Space Agency venture researcher. He told The Associated Press (AP) that the exploration group needed to make another term for the little flares: open air fires.

Müller depicted the many “campfires” as potentially “the tiny cousins of the solar flares that we already know.”

These little flares could help clarify why the sun’s external covering – the crown – is multiple times more sweltering than the star’s surface.

In any case, researchers are hanging tight for more data from Solar Orbiter’s different instruments to know without a doubt.

David Berghmans is with the Royal Observatory of Belgium. He was the lead researcher who built up the instrument that took the pictures. Berghmans told the AP that, “When the first images came in, my first thought was, ‘This is not possible – it can’t be that good.’”

He included, “It was really much better than we expected, but what we dared to hope for.”

The $1.5 billion rocket will draw even nearer to the sun’s surface in the following two years. The shuttle will change its circle as the mission goes on. This will make it workable for Solar Orbiter to take the main photos of the solar poles.

Sun powered Orbiter likewise conveys plasma-inspecting instruments to offer scientists extra data about the sun.

Project researcher Holly Gilbert noticed, “That combination [of instruments] really allows us to make links and connections to what’s happening on the sun and what’s happening at the spacecraft.”

Gilbert is with NASA, the U.S. government’s non military personnel space program.

Sunlight based Orbiter’s primary crucial analyzing the sun’s polar territories will assist scientists with understanding the reasons for solar wind – electrically charged particles that experience our nearby planetary group. Sun oriented breeze can influence satellites and hardware on Earth.

“This is just the beginning of the long epic journey of Solar Orbiter,” Müller said.